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Haiti on the way to reconstitute a military forces that was abolished in 1995 1709135.
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| Haiti on the way to reconstitute a military forces that was abolished in 1995. | |||
Haiti
moved closer on Monday, September 16, 2013, to reconstituting a military
that was abolished in 1995. In a small ceremony in the farming village
of Petite Rivere de L'Aritibonite, Defense Minister Jean-Rodolphe Joazile
greeted the first 41 recruits who recently returned from eight months
of training in Ecuador. |
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 The first 41 recruits who recently returned from eight months of training in Ecuador to reconstituting the Haitian army, which was disbanded 18 years ago. |
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They will be the first members a national military force that the government of President Michel Martelly wants to revive. Joazile said they will spend three months working alongside Ecuadorean military engineers among the rice fields in central Haiti to repair roads and work on other public service projects in their impoverished country, which was hit by a devastating earthquake three years ago. "Haiti's needs are not in the infantry but in technical service," Joazile said in an earlier interview. "The country is in a state of reconstruction. We need mechanics." Almost all of those
in the new unit are recent high school graduates. They include 30 soldiers,
10 engineers and one officer and will report to the Defense Ministry.
They won't carry weapons for now but could carry handguns, in three
to four years, if either the recruits pay for the weapon themselves
or the government receives financing to do so, Joazile said in an interview
last week. |
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